Three days. Two conferences. One floor.
Browse the full week below, or jump straight to the Satellite Innovation or MilSat Symposium track.
Tue, Oct 27
15 sessionsBreakfast
After SPCX: The Public Market’s Verdict on Space
Top analysts read on SpaceX’s first public financial results and what they reveal about everyone else.
WRC-27: The Clock Starts Now
A heads-up on the 2027 world conference that divides radio frequencies among satellite operators.
Break
Regulators as Capacity Allocators
How government licensing decisions now determine which satellite networks get to grow.
Orbital Data Centers — Radiators, Watts, and Orbits
The actual hardware for computing in orbit: how you power it and how you keep it cool.
Orbital Data Centers — Investable Infrastructure or Thermodynamic Bet?
The largest capital and engineering story of 2026. Can AI data centers be built in space? Believers and skeptics argue the engineering and the economics.
Lunch Sponsored by COMSAT
The Ground Bottleneck: GSaaS, the SCN, and the Capital Squeeze
Ground is the under-programmed bottleneck, and the money agrees: a $100 million Series B for a ground startup in January, a collapsed incumbent divestiture, and a federal facilities line tripling. Ground as the programma
Mission Software Lessons of 2026
What this year’s AI surge teaches the industry about software directions for growth.
Launch Isn’t Settled: Scarcity, Queues, and the 2029 Gap
Demand outstrips supply, prices are rising across dedicated and rideshare, and analysts project a capacity rough spot in 2029 and 2030. The session is reframed from vehicle showcase to allocation economics: who gets a ma
Break – Hors d’oeuvres
The Three-Stack D2D Contest
Feasibility of D2D ended in October 2025 when Starlink Mobile went commercial; the live question is now operator economics inside a three-stack war: SpaceX claiming wholesale intentions while spending over $20 billion on
License to Operate: Reentry, Astronomy, and the Externalities Bill
The side effects of launching thousands of satellites: what burns up in the sky, and what it may cost operators.
After SPCX: The Public Market’s Verdict on Space
Top analysts read on SpaceX’s first public financial results and what they reveal about everyone else.
WRC-27: The Clock Starts Now
A heads-up on the 2027 world conference that divides radio frequencies among satellite operators.
Break
Regulators as Capacity Allocators
How government licensing decisions now determine which satellite networks get to grow.
Orbital Data Centers — Radiators, Watts, and Orbits
The actual hardware for computing in orbit: how you power it and how you keep it cool.
Orbital Data Centers — Investable Infrastructure or Thermodynamic Bet?
The largest capital and engineering story of 2026. Can AI data centers be built in space? Believers and skeptics argue the engineering and the economics.
Lunch Sponsored by COMSAT
The Ground Bottleneck: GSaaS, the SCN, and the Capital Squeeze
Ground is the under-programmed bottleneck, and the money agrees: a $100 million Series B for a ground startup in January, a collapsed incumbent divestiture, and a federal facilities line tripling. Ground as the programma
Mission Software Lessons of 2026
What this year’s AI surge teaches the industry about software directions for growth.
Launch Isn’t Settled: Scarcity, Queues, and the 2029 Gap
Demand outstrips supply, prices are rising across dedicated and rideshare, and analysts project a capacity rough spot in 2029 and 2030. The session is reframed from vehicle showcase to allocation economics: who gets a ma
Break – Hors d’oeuvres
The Three-Stack D2D Contest
Feasibility of D2D ended in October 2025 when Starlink Mobile went commercial; the live question is now operator economics inside a three-stack war: SpaceX claiming wholesale intentions while spending over $20 billion on
License to Operate: Reentry, Astronomy, and the Externalities Bill
The side effects of launching thousands of satellites: what burns up in the sky, and what it may cost operators.
Wed, Oct 28
16 sessionsBreakFast
Sovereign Constellations and the Fragmenting Market
Europe and China are building government-backed satellite networks. What that does to American companies.
Protected PNT: The Unfunded Resilience Buy
Backup systems for GPS exist, but almost nobody is paying for them.
Break
Buses vs. Vertical Integration: Who Builds the Proliferated Era
The factory question: standardized satellite platforms versus companies that build everything themselves. The fight is who builds the proliferated era and who finances production before contract certainty. The industria
Commercial EO’s Government Dependency Problem
Satellite-imagery companies depend on a few government contracts, and that dependence is now a business risk.
Lunch
MilSat Symposium begins
The national-security half of Silicon Valley Space Week starts here.
Building Warfighter-Ready Space Systems: Autonomy, Logistics, and On-Orbit Servicing
Looking at how the military is trying to change its orbital architecture from fragile, stationary targets into a dynamic, sustainable fleet. Here is a breakdown of the core concepts to be discussed. 1. Warfighter-Ready S
The Space Data Network: Backbone or Single Point of Failure?
The budget made the mesh decision; the fight now is execution and concentration. 2027 shifts transport from SDA’s Tranche 3 plans to an SDN backbone and instead funds a $1.6 billion Proliferated LEO SATCOM line identifie
Break
NGA and NRO Future Purchases
The government’s mapping-intelligence agency explains what commercial imagery and analysis it plans to buy next.
Evening Reception
Sovereign Constellations and the Fragmenting Market
Europe and China are building government-backed satellite networks. What that does to American companies.
Protected PNT: The Unfunded Resilience Buy
Backup systems for GPS exist, but almost nobody is paying for them.
Break
Buses vs. Vertical Integration: Who Builds the Proliferated Era
The factory question: standardized satellite platforms versus companies that build everything themselves. The fight is who builds the proliferated era and who finances production before contract certainty. The industria
Commercial EO’s Government Dependency Problem
Satellite-imagery companies depend on a few government contracts, and that dependence is now a business risk.
Lunch
Building Warfighter-Ready Space Systems: Autonomy, Logistics, and On-Orbit Servicing
Looking at how the military is trying to change its orbital architecture from fragile, stationary targets into a dynamic, sustainable fleet. Here is a breakdown of the core concepts to be discussed. 1. Warfighter-Ready S
The Space Data Network: Backbone or Single Point of Failure?
The budget made the mesh decision; the fight now is execution and concentration. 2027 shifts transport from SDA’s Tranche 3 plans to an SDN backbone and instead funds a $1.6 billion Proliferated LEO SATCOM line identifie
Break
NGA and NRO Future Purchases
The government’s mapping-intelligence agency explains what commercial imagery and analysis it plans to buy next.
Thu, Oct 29
14 sessionsGolden Dome – Accelerating Industrial Capability on a 2028 Clock
Twelve companies won contracts to build missile interceptors in space. Can industry actually deliver by 2028.
CASR After FOC: Who Owns the Risk?
If a requisitioned commercial satellite is attacked, who carries the loss. Indemnification language remains publicly unresolved as the program crosses full operational capability,
Break
Commercial GEOINT for the Battlefield
Commercial satellite photos are entering military decisions. How are they being used and by whom.
Space Control as a Market: RG-XX, RPO, and the Limits of Commercial Combat Support
The military is hiring private companies to watch, refuel, and guard satellites. It is is moving away from massive, static satellites and toward agile, commercially supported fleets that can actively maneuver in a conte
Lunch
GPS Under Attack: Jamming, Spoofing, and the PNT Fight
The Space Force office buying missile interceptors and surveillance satellites explains its sprint.
CASR: State of the Reserve
An update on the new program that lets the military call up commercial satellites in a crisis, a civil reserve for space.
Break – Hors d’oeuvres
How Commercial Space Companies Can Support Future Defense Space Architectures with speed, flexibility, and affordability
The "future architecture" is heavily proliferated. This means relying on hundreds or thousands of smaller, cheaper, networked satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). If an adversary disables one, the rest of the network sea
War Risk: The New Space Insurance Market
Who insures a satellite in wartime? A new market is forming around that question.
Hybrid Space Architecture: Commercial Integration in Practice
DIU’s program is the second commercial-integration thread after CASR and the practical one: multi-vendor, multi-orbit data transport actually under contract.
Golden Dome – Accelerating Industrial Capability on a 2028 Clock
Twelve companies won contracts to build missile interceptors in space. Can industry actually deliver by 2028.
CASR After FOC: Who Owns the Risk?
If a requisitioned commercial satellite is attacked, who carries the loss. Indemnification language remains publicly unresolved as the program crosses full operational capability,
Break
Commercial GEOINT for the Battlefield
Commercial satellite photos are entering military decisions. How are they being used and by whom.
Space Control as a Market: RG-XX, RPO, and the Limits of Commercial Combat Support
The military is hiring private companies to watch, refuel, and guard satellites. It is is moving away from massive, static satellites and toward agile, commercially supported fleets that can actively maneuver in a conte
Lunch
GPS Under Attack: Jamming, Spoofing, and the PNT Fight
The Space Force office buying missile interceptors and surveillance satellites explains its sprint.
CASR: State of the Reserve
An update on the new program that lets the military call up commercial satellites in a crisis, a civil reserve for space.
Break – Hors d’oeuvres
How Commercial Space Companies Can Support Future Defense Space Architectures with speed, flexibility, and affordability
The "future architecture" is heavily proliferated. This means relying on hundreds or thousands of smaller, cheaper, networked satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). If an adversary disables one, the rest of the network sea
War Risk: The New Space Insurance Market
Who insures a satellite in wartime? A new market is forming around that question.
Hybrid Space Architecture: Commercial Integration in Practice
DIU’s program is the second commercial-integration thread after CASR and the practical one: multi-vendor, multi-orbit data transport actually under contract.